Report: Apple Censors Anti-Communist Engravings on Products in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

According to a recent report, tech giant Apple has begun censoring certain words and phrases from being engraved on their products in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. One of the censored engravings in China is “8964,” which is a reference to the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

CitizenLab reports that tech giant Apple has begun censoring certain words and phrases from its product engraving service in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The company previously censored certain terms in an attempt to avoid racist language or vulgar words, but new reports claim that the company is now restricting words and phrases relating to political references in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

CitizenLab writes: “We found that part of Apple’s mainland China political censorship bleeds into both Hong Kong and Taiwan. Much of this censorship exceeds Apple’s legal obligations in Hong Kong, and we are aware of no legal justification for the political censorship of content in Taiwan.”